No Shield From Arrest For Karti Chidambaram For Now, Says Supreme Court

The former finance minister’s son is being investigated by the Central Bureau of Investigation, or CBI, also for allegedly asking a bribe to use his father’s influence to regularise investments made by a television company, INX media group a decade earlier. Indrani and husband Peter Mukerjea, both of them in jail for the murder of Indrani’s daughter Sheena Bora, had founded the company.

Senior Congress leader and lawyer Kapil Sibal, who is representing Karti Chidambaram in the case, told the bench today that Karti Chidambaram should not be arrested since there is no FIR by the Enforcement Directorate.

The CBI, which has been questioning Karti Chidambaram for the last five days, is going to ask a Delhi court for an extension of his custody.

CBI sources earlier had said that Karti Chidambaram was not cooperating with investigators and stonewalling the probe.